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Miriam Shaviv

Miriam Shaviv

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In this ever-changing world, we need traditions like the coronation

My Jewish life sustains me when progress is bewildering and the royal family do the same

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 06: King Charles III and Queen Camilla stand on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 06, 2023 in London, England. The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today. Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - A woman wearing earrings depicting the Israeli flag smiles before demonstrators chanting slogans and waving Israeli flags in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022, ahead of the 'flags march' to mark "Jerusalem Day". - Thousands of flag-waving Israelis marched on May 29 into the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City during a nationalist procession that regularly stokes Palestinian anger, a year after Jerusalem tensions exploded into war. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Why is Israel the world's fourth happiest country?

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 26: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks at a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on January 26, 2017 in London, England. The commemorative event, attended by religious leaders, heard testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust, in which millions of predominantly Jewish people were killed. National Holocaust Day on February 27 marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Israel should learn from diaspora rabbis

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My Unorthodox Life: Season 1. Episode 5, Secular in the City. Pictured: Julia Haart c. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021

I have non-Jewish friends but few Reform ones

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l cannot forget how Starmer endorsed Corbyn

It’s still too soon to vote Labour until it has a set of fresh faces untainted by that awful era

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October 28, 2022 09:22

l cannot forget how Starmer endorsed Corbyn

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

Itamar Ben-Gvir is the heir to the extremist’s dark legacy, and is dangerously close to power

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September 5, 2022 10:57

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

Rabbi Romain’s shechitah views risk calamity

Like those Jews who gave succour to Corbyn, his attack on the practice is a gift to its enemies

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July 25, 2022 13:31

Rabbi Romain’s shechitah views risk calamity

Diaspora Jews are now all about social justice

Far-right Israeli politicians like Smotrich have failed to keep up with shift in Western culture

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February 18, 2022 12:05

Head of Israel's Jewish Zionism (Zionut Datit) list Bezalel Smotrich (C) gestures as he visits the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on May 10, 2021. - More than 300 people were wounded in renewed confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque complex, as an Israeli celebration of its 1967 takeover of Jerusalem risked inflaming tensions. The violence since May 7 has been Jerusalem's worst since 2017, fuelled by a long-running bid by Jewish settlers to evict several Palestinian families from their nearby east Jerusalem Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. (Photo by Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Wake up: Orthodox teenagers are now ‘woke’

Shuls and other institutions have to find ways to accept a different generational outlook

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December 30, 2021 10:33

Young woman with a raised fist protesting in the street

The chaos of being an Israeli parent in Britain

Israel's ‘forced citizenship’ rules for entry for the children of expats are unethical and mad

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November 11, 2021 11:08

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Women will begin saying ‘no’ to the chuppah

The beth din’s stance on get coercion is protecting abusive men, and we won’t take it for long

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September 24, 2021 11:50

Women will begin saying ‘no’ to the chuppah

The reaction to My Unorthodox Life is telling

The defensiveness of many modern Orthodox women belies genuine issues with fulfilment

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August 5, 2021 10:58

The reaction to My Unorthodox Life is telling

Orthodox female rabbis deserve more respect

It is perverse to bar women from teaching if they decide to gain better qualifications to teach

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June 18, 2021 15:25

Orthodox female rabbis deserve more respect

Wearing a mask should be a Jewish tradition

Why mark the historical plague of the Talmud while ignoring the one afflicting us now, writes Miriam Shaviv

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March 4, 2021 17:26

Young teenager wearing a face mask whilst site seeing on a city break holiday. Taken in London in the UK. COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

How can Orthodox Jews still support Trump?

'This section of the community has allied itself to a wacky fringe which is being rejected outright by every decent American. And they are still defending a leader whose personal and ethical shortcomings are finally embarrassing even those who stuck by hi

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January 26, 2021 16:45

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One for his last time as President on January 20, 2021 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump, the first president in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor's inauguration, is expected to spend the final minutes of his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Photo by Pete Marovich - Pool/Getty Images)

Cancel culture isn’t coming for Dahl’s racism

'If the case of Roald Dahl shows anything, it’s how little “cancel culture” cares about antisemitism.'

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December 11, 2020 13:14

Cancel culture isn’t coming for Dahl’s racism

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